Client, a 60-year-old licensed plumber, arrived at defendant’s farm to estimate the cost of installing water lines for cattle. When he arrived, the farmer was extracting a dead calf from a first-calf heifer with a rope attached to a farm ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Diane McQuade Strick­land Million-Dollar Settlements Premises Liability

A neighbor of an elderly man who became friendly with him and offered to manage his personal affairs and assist with estate planning, and who then became trustee, attorney in fact and executor of trusts and of his holographic will, ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Wills & Trusts

This was a motor vehicle accident that occurred in Fauquier County. The defendant contended that he had been at Potomac Mills Mall window-shopping for hours, that he then met up with an old friend and they went to a barbecue. ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death

After defense lawyers argued prosecutors unfairly influenced a grand jury, a Fauquier County judge dismissed seven felony charges against a former attorney accused of misappropriating client money. Prosecutors then withdrew two felony charges of making false statements on tax returns. ...

Tagged with: Commonwealth's Attorneys Criminal Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge David H. Beck Loudoun County Circuit Court

Over husband’s objection, a Fauquier County Circuit Court can direct wife to satisfy an equitable distribution award by transferring to husband a 24 ½ percent interest in the family business, governed by the parties’ limited partnership agreement. Husband and wife ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Virginia Circuit Courts

A former client’s legal malpractice action against his bankruptcy lawyer is time-barred because the alleged act – persuading the client to sell his home to the lawyer, who later sold it at a profit – occurred after termination of the ...

Tagged with: Contract Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a couple’s PSA did not explicitly call for wife to transfer to husband her interest in the real property that was part of the car wash husband was to have, wife testified that she understood husband would get the ...

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This is a motor vehicle accident case where the defendant pulled out in front of the plaintiff. As a result of the impact, the plaintiff suffered a mild cervical strain and head trauma. He did not lose consciousness but was ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Personal Injury

Although husband’s evidence from a private investigator who followed wife as she met an old high-school boyfriend was sufficient to prove adultery, husband and wife continued their relationship and wife’s later alleged cruelty did not act to “revive” the earlier ...

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A Fauquier County Circuit Court rejects a charitable remainder trust’s request to substitute J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA as successor trustee to Bank of America NA, as J.P. Morgan Chase has not qualified as a fiduciary as it is not ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Virginia Circuit Courts Wills & Trusts